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Johannes Berg authored
Since commit 1dacc76d Author: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Date: Wed Jul 1 11:26:02 2009 +0000 net/compat/wext: send different messages to compat tasks we had a race condition when setting and then restoring frag_list. Eric attempted to fix it, but the fix created even worse problems. However, the original motivation I had when I added the code that turned out to be racy is no longer clear to me, since we only copy up to skb->len to userspace, which doesn't include the frag_list length. As a result, not doing any frag_list clearing and restoring avoids the race condition, while not introducing any other problems. Additionally, while preparing this patch I found that since none of the remaining netlink code is really aware of the frag_list, we need to use the original skb's information for packet information and credentials. This fixes, for example, the group information received by compat tasks. Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.31+, for 2.6.35 revert 1235f504] Signed-off-by:
Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Acked-by:
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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